| Contents |
Foreword / Tim Page -- Starting over -- The willful prodigy -- A teacher at last! -- Ugh, Vaudeville -- Clipping the wings -- An end to apprenticeship -- From Radio City to radio -- gBetween two fires -- Radio days -- Death of young love -- Morton at war -- "Shirley Two" -- Lenny, and Hollywood -- Broadway and beyond -- Clouds around a peak -- "Morton Gould and His Orchestra" -- Great Neck, Long Island -- Fading out -- Chicago, and Balanchine -- War at home -- Bicentennial -- Revivals and disasters -- "A sort of elder statesman" -- ASCAP -- The sweet and the bitter -- Triumph, and curtain. |
| Abstract |
Peter Goodman began working with Gould on Morton Gould: American Salute more than a year before Gould's death. He spent many hours interviewing Gould as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. Upon Gould's death, his family allowed Goodman access to his files, diaries, records, and tapes. The result is a full, detailed, and well-rounded story, one that is, to quote from Tim Page's foreword, "no hagiography, but rather an empathetic but unsparing portrait of a full man, with all the complexities and contradictions any such portrait ensures. |
